Universal Indemnity Ins. v. North Shore Delivery Co.

TREANOR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a declaratory decree of the District Court. The plaintiffappellee brought suit for the purpose of obtaining a judicial construction of certain provisions of a contract of indemnity insurance issued by the plaintiff, Universal Indemnity Insurance Company, to the defendant North Shore Delivery Company. The specific relief sought was a declaration that the plaintiff insurer had been relieved of liability under the indemnity insurance contract by reason of the violation of certain conditions therein by the defendant North Shore Delivery Company.

The…